Poor Yaris :(

[2006fronty]

Originally Posted by detroiter

8,000 worth...and they didn't total it. Kind of pissed me off. It honestly didn't look that bad but I guess since the car model was only 2 years old here in the states, parts were still hard to come by used and had to be bought new directly from the dealer. It spent a month in the shop and came out looking like new.

Hmmm, I looked up KBB on the Yaris.... damn these little bastards keep their value haha retail value is $12,235, but I only owe like $4,500.

To total it doesn't the damage have to be a certain amount of the cars value or something???

[CTScott]

Originally Posted by 2006fronty

Hmmm, I looked up KBB on the Yaris.... damn these little bastards keep their value haha retail value is $12,235, but I only owe like $4,500.

To total it doesn't the damage have to be a certain amount of the cars value or something???

I'm betting that they total it. I've been looking into buying some totaled Yaris from the insurance salvage auctions and have seen ones with less damage than that listed with salvage titles.

[mryaris]

Originally Posted by 2006fronty

To total it doesn't the damage have to be a certain amount of the cars value or something???

Generally the damage needs to be greater than 75% of the current market value to be considered a total loss (although this varies from insurance company to insurance company).

I recently totalled my '09 Yaris and the repair bill was $16200......$3000 more than I paid for it!

It's hard to tell if yours will be totalled, but you really do want it to be. Even if they fix it properly, it will forever be branded as salvage so its resale value will always be less than one that was never wrecked. Now if you plan on keeping it and driving it forever then this isn't much of a concern.

[2006fronty]

I found this salvaged one online, it looks like similar damage to our Yaris

[CTScott]

Originally Posted by 2006fronty

I found this salvaged one online, it looks like similar damage to our Yaris

An 09 with similar damage sold for $2600 at an auction near me this week.

[2009BBPliftback]

yeah insurance companies are crazy my uncle was t boned in his E class and did 22,000 dollars in damage and they wanted to fix it... he told em they could keep it if they want to fix it.. play hardball with em we pay insurance for a reason